Word: mather
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...LITERARY KEY to late Puritan ideology, Bercovitch chooses not the jeremiads but Cotton Mather's epic work, the Magnalia Christi Americana--particularly his "Life of John Winthrop." In his "Life," Mather portrays Winthrop as a "Nehemius Americanus," a peculiarly American saviour whose life foreshadows the Second Coming. Mather's ambition, according to Bercovitch, is to be the Winthrop of his generation; writing during the decline of theocracy, Mather, he says, offered himself--in his capacity as a representative American type--as a link between the triumphal era of Winthrop and the millenial future, thus initiating a special mode of defining...
...University announced its selection of masters for Mather and North Houses this week, ending an uneventful search process that sharply contrasts with the arduous months spent unearthing a master for Lowell House last year...
Both David Herlihy, professor of History, and his wife, Patricia, and J. Woodland Hastings, professor of Biology, and his wife, Hannah--who got the nod for the Mather and North House co-masterships, respectively--were the first choices of the University's final selection committee, sources on the committee said yesterday...
...European social and economic history, is on leave this year living with his family at Harvard's Villa I Tatti Center for Renaissance Studies in Florence, Italy. He and Patricia Herlihy, a research assistant at the Russian Research Center, will replace F. Skiddy von Stade '33, who retires as Mather House master and dean of freshmen this year...
Taylor said it was not unusual for windows to blow out around the University. Mather tower windows have shattered in the past, although no more than one window at a time, von Stade added...